Lachlan Bryce: Rising Sons
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Lachlan Bryce: Rising Sons

It’s a bold move to put out an album commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ANZACs landing in Gallipoli given the historical significance to this country, however it has paid off and is the latest release for Lachlan Bryce. Opening with a distorted guitar playing the unmistakable riff of ‘The Last Post’, the album transitions into ‘We Were Young’, a song about being a digger and going off to war, the jangle of electric guitar and full band gives the song an added kick as it rolls along quite steadily. The transition between ‘We Were Young’ and ‘You Pommy Bastards’ is a little hard to gauge on the first listen due to going from quiet electric rock that is quite melodic to the pounding drums of a full band and up-tempo melodies is quite hard to get into on the first listen. By the third however, my mind has acclimatised to what Bryce is trying to achieve.
In ‘For Our Lads’, Bryce tries to achieve the sound of a band of men travelling through the trenches, which he achieves with percussion, and a quaint (and quite unexpected) train whistle. The centrepiece to this album is ‘Burning’ a piano ballad in which Bryce sings ‘Mother Rescue Me’ which finishes the song on broken chords and the lyric of ‘I’m not coming back’, which relates the harshness of war and the grim realities of battle.
From a few listens through, it is easy to hear that this CD is a home production and you should definitely head out and support Lachlan Bryce, a great local artist. My favourite track of this album has to be, ‘Going Home’, which at times sounds like a mixture of Evermore and Youth Group which makes the indie kid in me smile. A tough subject to write an album about and although the song transitions are a little hard to comprehend the first time around, give it at least three spins to experience what Lachlan Bryce has achieved in Rising Sons quite successfully.
Reviewed by Tex Miller